thwart

Significat (Anglès)

Adj

1. Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse.
2. Of people: having a tendency to oppose; obstinate, perverse, stubborn.
3. Of situations or things: adverse, unfavourable, unlucky.

Adv

Across the direction of travel or length of; athwart, crosswise, obliquely, transversely.

Prep

Across, athwart.

Verb

1. To cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent.
2. (obsolete) To place (something) across (another thing); to position crosswise.
3. (obsolete) To hinder or obstruct by placing (something) in the way of; to block, to impede, to oppose.
4. (obsolete) To move (something) across or counter to; to cross.

Noun

1. A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
2. A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (“breadth”) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
3. An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle.

Sinònims

hinder

frustrate

foil

block

obstruct

oppose

prevent

impede

stop

🛑

spoil

baffle

cross

scotch

check

bilk

deter

inhibit

stymie

queer

hamper

forestall

stymy

balk

cross thwart

preclude

confound

checkmate

withstand

restrain

embarrass

head off

traverse

transverse

transversal

trammel

circumvent

discomfit

encumber

envy

flag down

forbid

forfend

get

go against

halt

handicap

help

hold up

impugn

incapacitate

intercept

interdict

interrupt

make impossible

obstruction

obviate

opposition

oppugn

poison

pull

pull up

rebuff

rebut

refute

rein

rejoin

resist

restrict

roadblock

rule out

scrap

shut

sidelong

sideway

sideways

slantingly

stagnate

stalemate

stall

stay

stem

still

stump

stunt

switch off

trig

turn off

turn out

counter to

fight against

opposed to

rein in

stand in the way

Hinder

keep someone from doing

forefend

hate

😡

oppse

cross up

over-ride

over-rule

arrest

avert

bar

beard

blockade

block out

block up

bother

bring up

clog

confute

contradict

contravene

controvert

counter

counteract

cramp

crosspiece

cumber

curb

curve

cut

cut off

damage

debar

deep-six

defeat

deflect

delay

detain

disable

disappoint

disrupt

disturb

ditch

draw up

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/θwɔːt/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: thwert

Cognat amb danès: tvær

Cognat amb gòtic: 𐌸𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍃

Cognat amb neerlandès mitjà: dwers

Cognat amb neerlandès: dwars

Cognat amb noruec: tvert

Cognat amb Old Frisian: þweres

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: twars

Cognat amb frisó occidental: dwers

Cognat amb Middle Low German: dwers

Cognat amb baix alemany: dwars

Cognat amb anglès antic: þweorh

Cognat amb alt alemany antic: twer

Cognat amb alt alemany mitjà: twer

Cognat amb alemany: quer

Cognat amb suec: tvär

Heretat de anglès mitjà: thwerten

Cognat amb anglès mitjà: thwert

In summary

The adjective is derived from Early Middle English thwert, thwerte, thuart, thurt, thurte, thwart, thwarte, twart, twarte, twhart, twhert, twort, þuert, þwerrt, þwert, þwerte, ðwert (“crosswise, transverse; counter, opposing; contrary, obstinate”), borrowed from Old Norse þvert (“across, athwart”), originally the neuter form of þverr (“across, transverse”), from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz (“cross; adverse”) (altered or influenced by Proto-Germanic *þweraną (“to stir; to swirl; to turn”)), from Proto-Germanic *þerh-, probably from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to spin; to turn”).
The English adjective is cognate with Danish tvær (“sullen, sulky”), Gothic 𐌸𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍃 (þwairs, “angry”), Middle Dutch dwers, dwars (modern Dutch dwars (“crosswise, transverse; slantwise, askew; stubbornly disobedient”)), Norwegian tvert, tvært, Old Frisian þweres, dwers (Saterland Frisian twars, West Frisian dwers, dwerz (“across, to the other side of; beyond”)), Middle Low German dwers, dwars (Low German dwars (“contrary; cross-grained”)), Old English þweorh (“transverse; perverse; angry, cross”), Old High German twer (Middle High German twer, quer, modern German quer (“crosswise; cross”)), Swedish tvär (“across, transverse; of a curve: sharp; immediate, sudden; grumpy, stubborn”). It is related to queer; also Proto-West Germanic *þwerh,
The adverb is derived from Middle English thwert, ywerte (“crosswise; across the grain”); the Middle English Dictionary suggests the adverb was derived from the adjective, while the Oxford English Dictionary notes that the adverb is attested earlier than the adjective.
The verb is derived from Middle English thwerten, thwert, thwarten, þwerten (“to lie across; to oppose, to thwart”), and further from the adverb and perhaps also the adjective.
Noun sense 1 (“a seat across a boat on which a rower may sit”) may be derived from the adverb or adjective, from the position of the seat across the length of the boat, while noun sense 3 (“(rare) an act of thwarting”) is derived from the verb. Compare Middle English thwert (“in in thwert: crosswise”), from the adjective.